Happy New Year!
Okay, let me confess that I love the act of making new year's resolutions. I'm so much a fanatic that I don't make a list, but a notebook. I fill the pages with lists of goals, resolutions, hopes, and plans. Then I start with the plan of action and strategic steps. It's a bit excessive, but it feeds my brain's need to organize my collective thoughts.
When … [Read more...]

I recently watched a TED talk by a woman who spent many years working in the daytime soap industry. She talked about the fact that there are many lessons to be learned from soaps, and soap characters; including perseverance, belief in one's self, and that any obstacle can be climbed, and overcome.
I have to admit that it got me thinking about something I used to say to my … [Read more...]

As we grow older, life is often a series of personal examinations; usually pondered against our own will. We pick apart our appearance, our social standing. We even compare the way things are to the way they used to be; or worse, to the success of our counterparts.
Other examinations carry smaller, more invisible marks. As a child attending parochial school, I had the … [Read more...]

On a recent trip home I visited my elderly grandmother at her current residence in a home care center for immobile seniors. As a child, I always loved to sit and listen to my grandmother tell stories about her childhood and growing up in British Guyana.
In the last few months as she's been unwell it's been difficult to see the woman that I've always seen as strong and … [Read more...]

Years ago, when I was a young college student, with a lot less . . . stuff, I considered life an adventure, worthy of having a new view regularly. Back then, that took the form of moving every year or two. I simply loved the act of waking up someplace new. There was the hundred year old Victorian where I grew up; with its creaky wooden floors, unevenly plastered walls, and … [Read more...]